Feature Story Medicine man
A new doctor has joined Home and Away and he’s already a part of a hot love affair. Ditch Davey tells Danielle McGrane about playing new character Dr Christian Green and his budding romance with another Summer Bay resident.
T here’s nothing like a willthey-won’t-they romance to stir up some intrigue and no show knows that better than Home and Away.
The latest pair to start heating things up in Summer Bay are the soap’s doctors, Dr Tori Morgan (Penny McNamee) and neurosurgeon Dr Christian Green, played by newcomer Ditch Davey.
“It’s a great character to play and I’m having a lot of fun doing it and working with the cast, mainly Penny,” Davey said
Funnily enough, it’s not the first time he’s played the part of a neurosurgeon.
“This is the second time. I thought that I would be the last person to do that but I played a neurosurgeon in a US series called Black Box that I shot in 2013/14 over in New York. Dr Christian is a little more humble than that character was, but it’s a lot of fun,” her said.
Regardless of his previous experience, he insists he hasn’t picked up any useful medical knowledge and he admits, the medical jargon is a lot to get his head around sometimes, but he makes an effort to try and understand it.
“I think, like anything, you can’t learn something if you don’t understand it. So having words in front of you it’s very hard to learn them if you don’t know what it all means so there’s a lot of time taken to understanding what these things are, what they mean,” he said.
Davey and McNamee are now an emerging hot couple on Home and Away with a rom-com storyline to match – Dr Christian is treating Dr Tori’s brother Justin (James Stewart).
Theirs is a love affair that takes a bit of time to get off the ground.
“Watching some of the scenes back, the awkward state of it is kind of cringe-worthy, so you think ‘We did it, that’s exactly what it’s like. Feeling embarrassed or feeling like you’ve said too much or not enough’.”
And he’s built up a friendship with McNamee that he thinks is key to their on-screen chemistry.
“There’s a lot of time between set-ups, between scenes, that we are with each other, to form a fast friendship and a trust within each other so that we can be vulnerable and we can try new things that are interesting. I think that’s definitely key to it because you can certainly see if you don’t have it, it comes across,” he said.
“In my career it’s always been about friendship and trust that gets you into that mode where you can play and do fun things on camera.”
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He has high hopes for the doctors, and he knows what he’d like to see happen between them.
“I think they’re two very strong characters who work very well with each other and you do want to see them be able to sustain what they’ve got and find room in their lives for each other,” he said.
“It will be interesting to see whether they can find room in their lives for each other.
The hopeless romantic in me wants that.”
Home and Away, weeknights, 7pm, Seven